Michael Jackson Quotes

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

Michael Jackson

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• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

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• I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.

  

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• You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

  

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• I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

  

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• Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

  

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• Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

  

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• I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

  

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• Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

  

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• I am a perfectionist.

  

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• I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.

  

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• There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.

  

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• My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.

  

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• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

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• I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

  

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• I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Kind of embarrassed